LibGuides: Affordable Course Materials and Open Educational Resources (OER): Creating and Publishing

Tools for Remixing Content

Tools for remixing content

H2O from Harvard Law
Create custom playlists of course readings and other material.
LibGuides
LibGuides can be used to compile content for your course. Ask a librarian to help you create your own!
OER Commons Module Builder
The Module Builder allows authors to create both student and instructor facing content views. Authors are encouraged to include overviews, pedagogical supporting text, and instructions.
20 Million Minds Mix
Allows faculty to create high grade custom textbooks in both digital and print formats.
OERca
Open source software from the University of Michigan designed to help instructors compile and create course materials.
Open Textbook Library
Open Textbook Network allows for modifying of their open textbooks using the Pressbooks platform.
Lumen Learning
Institutional subscription required for access to authoring platform and hosting of OER content
Open Attribution Builder
A citation tool for open content.

Getting Started

Affordable Learning Georgia Tutorial: Creating and Modifying Open Educational Resources - this is an excellent tutorial on how to create your own OER and adapt others' OER to your course.

Creative Commons Search

Search the web with Creative Commons filtered search engine to find web sites, articles, videos, images, and other resources licensed for sharing.

Tools for Creating Content

Government Publications

Everything published by the Federal government is free of any copyright restrictions. The research, reports and websites can be useful resources for classes when creating your own course material.

A great starting place to search is USA.gov.
Try to search a specific agency's website. A-Z List of Federal Agencies. Many times these materials are not retrieved with simple Google searches. Here are some examples of US Federal Databases.

The Homeland Security Digital Library is a collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Topics include maritime, unmanned aerial systems, terrorism, epidemics and many more.

SciTech Connect is a collection of science, technology, and engineering research information from the U.S. Department of Energy.